Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Orwell's dystopia of Big Brother and the Thought Police arrived just months before its gravely ill author's death.
On 8 June 1924 two British climbers were last seen "going strong for the top" high on Everest, then disappeared into the mist forever.
On June 8, 1869, a Chicago inventor patented a hand-powered "sweeping machine"—the awkward ancestor of every vacuum since.
On June 8, 1783, a 16-mile fissure split southern Iceland and spent eight months bleeding lava and toxic gas across the Northern Hemisphere.
After a single decade of preaching, the founder of Islam died in 632 having bound much of a fractured Arabia into one faith.
